Rethinking Canada The Promise of Women's History

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Rethinking Canada is a collection of essays on the diverse lives, struggles, and contributions of women in Canadian history. Now in its sixth edition, this trusted text includes articles spanning from the 1600s to the present day. Eighteen new essays offer increased coverage of indigenous,immigrant, and racialized experiences; work and labour; sexuality and the body; religion and spirituality; politics; and shifts in regional analysis. Recent scholarship and fresh editorial commentaries combine to create an invaluable introduction not only to Canadian women's history, but also to thestudy of Canadian history as a whole.

Mona Gleason is associate professor in educational studies at the University of British Columbia, where she teaches courses on the history of children and youth and the history of education. An active member of both the Ontario Women's History Network and the Canadian Committee on Women's History, she has also published a monograph entitled Normalizing the Ideal: Psychology, Schooling, and the Family in Postwar Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999).

Adele Perry is associate professor of history at the University of Manitoba. She is also the Canada Research Chair in Western Canadian Social History, and frequently teaches courses on gender history in Canada and Aboriginal rights. Her research interests include colonialism, transnationalism, migration, gender, and sexuality.

Tamara Myers is associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia. In addition to teaching women's history at UBC, she is actively researching in French-Canadian women's history and childhood history. Selected publications include Caught: Montreal's Modern Girls and the Law,1869-1945 (2006), and Negotiating Identities in 19th- and 20th-Century Montreal (edited with Bettina Bradbury, 2005).